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FRANK FORESTER’S FIELD SPORTS. 
nect them with my general hints on this subject; since, as they 
relate to this, more particularly than other kind of game, being 
more necessary among hills, they are here the most suitable. 
*The first is, if possible, to stalk the Mountain Goat, having 
the sun on your back, and in his eyes; the other is to approach 
him, again if possible, from the upper to the lower ground ; I 
say, in both cases, if possible—for all depends on the direction 
of the wind, down which it is impossible, under any circum¬ 
stances, to approach Deer or Goats. 
Both these animals have the habit, so far as they can, of al¬ 
ways keeping the upper ground ; and, consequently, it is their 
nature to keep the brightest look-out for an enemy’s approaches 
from below. They rarely, in comparison, look upward. 
Wild-fowl, on the contrary, and birds of all kinds, expecting 
all attacks from above, are most easily approached from below, 
upward. 
Cloudy weather, with a light, steady wind from one quarter, 
with occasional glimpses of sunshine, is very favorable for stalk¬ 
ing. High and changeable winds are very bad, as they render 
the herds wild, and make it more difficult to approach from the 
leeward. Mist is the worst of all, as animals of all kind, whether 
Fowl or Quadrupeds, with the solitary exception of the Brant 
Goose, which is most readily overhauled in a thick fog, can 
generally discover you before you have a suspicion of their 
whereabouts. 
Of the Mountain Goat I have no more to say, nor much more 
of the Mountain Sports at all. Five species of Grouse,—the 
Great Cock of the Plains, Tetrao Urophasianus; the Sharp¬ 
tailed Grouse, Tetrao Phasianellus; the Dusky Grouse, Tetrao 
Obscurus; the Rock Ptarmigan, Tetrao Rupestris; and the 
White-tailed Ptarmigan, Tetrao Leucurus —are natives, more or 
less abundant, of the Rocky Mountains—some dwelling on the 
highest and most difficult peaks, some in the higher valleys, and 
some—as the Cock of the Plains, and the Sharp-tailed Grouse— 
on the great plains at their base. The first of the two latter is 
found only on those plains which produce the arteraisia, or 
